RE: wedding playlist!Yeah yeah! Sinatra works on young and old and I just LOVE to slip him into a mix. I look for aj numbers with some real horns on them so that they connect in the brass because I do not like to screw with the speed too much and change his pitch. Nina Simone is another of my faves for these occasions. I like to use occasions like weddings to lay stuff on people in a quietly surreptitious sort of way. Something from the new St. Germain could apply here as well. It's got that so when I do weddings although it's only occasionally, I take a pen and paper because people always want to know what I was playing. I try to make a tape for the couple as well although often other people want one as well!
have fun with it Jim!
cheers
leslie
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Kerr
To: 'Leslie Shill'
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 8:39 AM
Subject: RE: wedding playlist!
cheers
I like the Sinatra thing - was thinking about some Songs for Swinging Lovers but for some reason didnt want to admit this on AJ list. tsk tsk - doubting my fellow listees appreciation of all colours of quality music ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Shill [SMTP:icehouse@redshift.com]
Sent: 11 August 2000 16:42
To: Jim Kerr
Subject: Re: wedding playlist!
Jim,
I have done some really successful weddings, you do NOT have to compromise yourself at all and you can do some banging sets once you lay it all in. I speak to the couple to see if there are any songs they particlularly want to hear, they usually will have one or two but I start my set in an ambient fashion and then I start getting into things like Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately Tha I Love YOU?, there are others that work as well, some Nina Simone - I put A Spell On You which has a lovely remix that samples Nina Simone well by Morf calle "Spell". I play Sinatra who can be mixed beautifully into downtempo/aj sets, besides the arranmgements are so great and he is a trip anyway, Once you start to look for sounds and songs that have "loving" notions in them, it gets to be fun! Once the initial first dances are over, I start to build with sounds that have a lot of percussion and a somewhat "natural" rather than programmed feel and, if I build it right, before the party is over they will be dancing to almost anything you are playing. It's quite a challenge a wedding is, because you have to do so much more than just spin some good sets! I do not want the "older" folks leaving, so I try to lure them in!
I hope you have fun, I usually do and I have been paid pretty well for the weddings that I have done! Good luck
leslie/The Power of Sound
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Kerr <mailto:jkerr@hbase.com>
To: 'acid-jazz@ucsd.edu' <mailto:'acid-jazz@ucsd.edu'>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 7:33 AM
Subject: wedding playlist!
I have to dj a mate's wedding
Want to appeal to all but keep it 'respectable'
I figure a lot of Latin and will try and play as many different version of Upo Neghina as I can. Barry White; a bit of garage; some soul classics and a little Lovers Rock is what I'm thinking.
Any djs on the list have experience of this?
What fills the floors/what sends mother in law straight to the hors-d'oeuvre table?
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